Congratulations to David for his win of the Great Lakes NACQ 2010. You can find the winner’s decklist and a tournament report in the Usenet newsgroup. The events of the final round will be posted on Merlin’s blog.

this is a friendly reminder of the upcoming 2010 European Championship that will take place in Paris, France starting from October 25th with the Week of Nightmares, with the LCQ / EC day 1 / EC day 2 on October 29th-31st.

Pre-registration and all the information you need is at official EC 2010 website. I strongly encourage all participants to register both to the event (“I register to EC” on the site) and to the accommodation place (named RIP, “I register to RIP” on the site), as soon as possible and redirect the information to whoever would be interested in attending the EC.

Before including here information about the venue, schedule and fees, I have a request for the people who post on a regular basis on other VtES related forums: could you either post here the URL for your local forum (national or the like) so I can post the same kind of message, or (even better) translate it yourself in your language and post there ?

For the record, we currently have 65 pre-registered players from the following countries: Belgium (1), UK (2), France (22), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Italy (1), Spain (5), Finland (20), Norway (1), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Slovakia (1), Switzerland (1), USA (3). We can and should certainly have more attendance, but any boost in advertising from anyone would be welcome.

Please go to the official VtES EC 2010website, where you can register, book accommodation, ask questions, etc. When following the links to the forums, you may also ask questions by e-mail at the address: info (at) ec2010vtes (dot) com.

Venue:

The 2010 European Championship will be held in the Residence Internationale de Paris a.k.a R.I.P, adress 44, rue Louis Lumière, Paris, France.

Schedule:

Monday, October 25th through Thursday, October 28th: Week of Nightmares (more and updated details on the WoN program can be found on the Facebook event page.

Monday, October 25th: Casual games at restaurant/pub in the afternoon, then MQE 2R+F (miniqualifier for the EC) in the store “Le Repaire du Dragon“, Paris

Saturday, 30 October : EC Day 1 or Adaptability (basically Adaptability is a format in which you may switch decks between rounds, no special rule except a given vampire cannot be in more than one deck)

Sunday, 31 October : EC Day 2 or First Chance Qualifier (for EC 2011)

Monday, 1 November, 10 am : Leave the rooms

Tournament Fees:

30 euro for attending the 3 tournaments of the week-end (for 20 euro you
only start playing on Saturday, or even 15 euro to only participate in one
tournament).

Accommodation and meal fees:

Single Room (1 bed): 52.00 euro per person per night

Double Room (2 beds): 34.90 euro per person per night

Group Room (3, 4 or 5 beds): 27.50 euro per person per night

12.50 euro per meal, lunch or dinner (the breakfast is included in the room fare). Meal tickets can be purchased at that price whether you have a room or not.

Pre-registration to the EC: Go to the official website, then click on “I register to EC”. Please do it as soon as possible, it will help us a lot in organizing the event. “As soon as possible” means “now“, preferably. Not one week before the event. Really. It takes 5 minutes. Do it now. Please. Tell your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband that Paris is an awesome city (which is true, even in October), no need to negotiate.

Booking your accommodation: (that means “what you must do if you want to sleep
during the EC”): Go to the official website, then click on “I register to RIP”.

Ben Swainbank, the VtES storyline coordinator, has published the aftermath story of the VtES storyline event “Battle Lines“, that took place from April to July 2010.

The ranking for the bloodlines look like this (Name — #Wins — (#Bahari/#Loyalists):

Kiasyd — 15 wins — (10 Bahari/5 Loyalist)

Baali — 14 — (14/0)

Salubri — 8 — (3/5)

Ahrimanes — 7 — (4/3)

Salubri Antitribu — 6 — (3/2)

Daughters of Cacophony — 5 — (4/2)

Gargoyles — 4 — (2/2)

True Brujah — 4 — (1/3)

Nagaraja — 3 — (2/1)

Blood Brothers — 2 — (1/1)

Samedi — 2 — (0/2)

The Kiasyd won the storyline event, but only by the smallest margin possible against the Baali. The Baali pledged their allegiance unanimously to the Bahari faction, but given the advantages provided by Lilith’s Blessing this is no real surprise. Only in three of the bloodlines the Loyalist faction was stronger (the Salubri, the Samedi, and the True Brujah).

Regarding the key minions, the Kiasyd showing was not as scattered as the nominations for the Baali, so The Arcadianwas the winner in this category:

When looking for the picture of Lilith’s Blessing, the Google search presented also this picture related to a tasting of Ossian Beer:Ridiculous .. no, when you think of it, it becomes quite clear: Lilith’s Blessing is a promo card used in the Battle Lines storyline event. And so is Infamous Insurgent, which speaks of Red List minions .. and Ossian is a Red List minion. Voila!